Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. A Ballad of Fighting.

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Commentary to the song “If thou’st found thyself in a strange land...”

This song has much in common with Gabdulla Tukay’s poem “When in thy course of life it hap­pens...” (1911).

The song was written for the film “The Only Road” (1974).

The presented text is adapted from Alec Vagapov’s translation.

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